詩篇 78
1 アサフのマスキールの歌 わが民よ、わが教を聞き、わが口の言葉に耳を傾けよ。
Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 わたしは口を開いて、たとえを語り、いにしえからの、なぞを語ろう。
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
3 これはわれらがさきに聞いて知ったこと、またわれらの先祖たちがわれらに語り伝えたことである。
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
4 われらはこれを子孫に隠さず、主の光栄あるみわざと、その力と、主のなされたくすしきみわざとをきたるべき代に告げるであろう。
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
5 主はあかしをヤコブのうちにたて、おきてをイスラエルのうちに定めて、その子孫に教うべきことをわれらの先祖たちに命じられた。
For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
6 これは次の代に生れる子孫がこれを知り、みずから起って、そのまた子孫にこれを伝え、
That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
7 彼らをして神に望みをおき、神のみわざを忘れず、その戒めを守らせるためである。
That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
8 またその先祖たちのようにかたくなで、そむく者のやからとなり、その心が定まりなく、その魂が神に忠実でないやからとならないためである。
And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9 エフライムの人々は武装し、弓を携えたが、戦いの日に引き返した。
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
10 彼らは神の契約を守らず、そのおきてにしたがって歩むことを拒み、
They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
11 神がなされた事と、彼らに示されたくすしきみわざとを忘れた。
And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
12 神はエジプトの地と、ゾアンの野でくすしきみわざを彼らの先祖たちの前に行われた。
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 神は海を分けて彼らを通らせ、水を立たせて山のようにされた。
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
14 昼は雲をもって彼らを導き、夜は、よもすがら火の光をもって彼らを導かれた。
In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
15 神は荒野で岩を裂き、淵から飲むように豊かに彼らに飲ませ、
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
16 また岩から流れを引いて、川のように水を流れさせられた。
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
17 ところが彼らはなお神にむかって罪をかさね、荒野でいと高き者にそむき、
Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 おのが欲のために食物を求めて、その心のうちに神を試みた。
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
19 また彼らは神に逆らって言った、「神は荒野に宴を設けることができるだろうか。
Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 見よ、神が岩を打たれると、水はほとばしりいで、流れがあふれた。神はまたパンを与えることができるだろうか。民のために肉を備えることができるだろうか」と。
Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
21 それゆえ、主は聞いて憤られた。火はヤコブにむかって燃えあがり、怒りはイスラエルにむかって立ちのぼった。
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
22 これは彼らが神を信ぜず、その救の力を信用しなかったからである。
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
23 しかし神は上なる大空に命じて天の戸を開き、
Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
24 彼らの上にマナを降らせて食べさせ、天の穀物を彼らに与えられた。
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
25 人は天使のパンを食べた。神は彼らに食物をおくって飽き足らせられた。
Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
26 神は天に東風を吹かせ、み力をもって南風を導かれた。
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
27 神は彼らの上に肉をちりのように降らせ、翼ある鳥を海の砂のように降らせて、
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
28 その宿営のなか、そのすまいのまわりに落された。
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
29 こうして彼らは食べて、飽き足ることができた。神が彼らにその望んだものを与えられたからである。
So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
30 ところが彼らがまだその欲を離れず、食物がなお口の中にあるうちに、
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
31 神の怒りが彼らにむかって立ちのぼり、彼らのうちの最も強い者を殺し、イスラエルのうちのえり抜きの者を打ち倒された。
When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
32 すべてこれらの事があったにもかかわらず、彼らはなお罪を犯し、そのくすしきみわざを信じなかった。
For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
33 それゆえ神は彼らの日を息のように消えさせ、彼らの年を恐れをもって過ごさせられた。
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
34 神が彼らを殺されたとき、彼らは神をたずね、悔いて神を熱心に求めた。
When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
35 こうして彼らは、神は彼らの岩、いと高き神は彼らのあがないぬしであることを思い出した。
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
36 しかし彼らはその口をもって神にへつらい、その舌をもって神に偽りを言った。
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
37 彼らの心は神にむかって堅実でなく、神の契約に真実でなかった。
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
38 しかし神はあわれみに富まれるので、彼らの不義をゆるして滅ぼさず、しばしばその怒りをおさえて、その憤りをことごとくふり起されなかった。
But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
39 また神は、彼らがただ肉であって、過ぎ去れば再び帰りこぬ風であることを思い出された。
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40 幾たび彼らは野で神にそむき、荒野で神を悲しませたことであろうか。
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
41 彼らはかさねがさね神を試み、イスラエルの聖者を怒らせた。
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 彼らは神の力をも、神が彼らをあだからあがなわれた日をも思い出さなかった。
They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 神はエジプトでもろもろのしるしをおこない、ゾアンの野でもろもろの奇跡をおこない、
How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 彼らの川を血に変らせて、その流れを飲むことができないようにされた。
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 神ははえの群れを彼らのうちに送って彼らを食わせ、かえるを送って彼らを滅ぼされた。
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
46 また神は彼らの作物を青虫にわたし、彼らの勤労の実をいなごにわたされた。
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
47 神はひょうをもって彼らのぶどうの木を枯らし、霜をもって彼らのいちじく桑の木を枯らされた。
He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.
48 神は彼らの家畜をひょうにわたし、彼らの群れを燃えるいなずまにわたされた。
He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 神は彼らの上に激しい怒りと、憤りと、恨みと、悩みと、滅ぼす天使の群れとを放たれた。
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
50 神はその怒りのために道を設け、彼らの魂を死から免れさせず、そのいのちを疫病にわたされた。
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 神はエジプトですべてのういごを撃ち、ハムの天幕で彼らの力の初めの子を撃たれた。
And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 こうして神はおのれの民を羊のように引き出し、彼らを荒野で羊の群れのように導き、
But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 彼らを安らかに導かれたので彼らは恐れることがなかった。しかし海は彼らの敵をのみつくした。
And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 神は彼らをその聖地に伴い、その右の手をもって獲たこの山に伴いこられた。
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
55 神は彼らの前からもろもろの国民を追い出し、その地を分けて嗣業とし、イスラエルの諸族を彼らの天幕に住まわせられた。
He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 しかし彼らはいと高き神を試み、これにそむいて、そのもろもろのあかしを守らず、
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
57 そむき去って、先祖たちのように真実を失い、狂った弓のようにねじれた。
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 彼らは高き所を設けて神を怒らせ、刻んだ像をもって神のねたみを起した。
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 神は聞いて大いに怒り、イスラエルを全くしりぞけられた。
When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
60 神は人々のなかに設けた幕屋なるシロのすまいを捨て、
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
61 その力をとりことならせ、その栄光をあだの手にわたされた。
And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62 神はその民をつるぎにわたし、その嗣業にむかって大いなる怒りをもらされた。
He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.
63 火は彼らの若者たちを焼きつくし、彼らのおとめたちは婚姻の歌を失い、
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
64 彼らの祭司たちはつるぎによって倒れ、彼らのやもめたちは嘆き悲しむことさえしなかった。
Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
65 そのとき主は眠った者のさめたように、勇士が酒によって叫ぶように目をさまして、
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
66 そのあだを撃ち退け、とこしえの恥を彼らに負わせられた。
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
67 神はヨセフの天幕をしりぞけ、エフライムの部族を選ばず、
Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
68 ユダの部族を選び、神の愛するシオンの山を選ばれた。
But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
69 神はその聖所を高い天のように建て、とこしえに基を定められた地のように建てられた。
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
70 神はそのしもべダビデを選んで、羊のおりから取り、
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
71 乳を与える雌羊の番をするところからつれて来て、その民ヤコブ、その嗣業イスラエルの牧者とされた。
From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
72 こうして彼は直き心をもって彼らを牧し、巧みな手をもって彼らを導いた。
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
